[Adopted 3-11-1980 by Ord. No. 310 as
Ch. 13, Art. 1 of the 1980 Code]
It shall be the duty of the property holders
or tenants residing within the Town to clean the pavements, gutters
and streets, to the middle of the streets, from all the street fronts
of the property, and to remove the dirt therefrom.
[Amended 11-17-2008 by Ord. No. 715-08]
All tenants and property owners are required
to remove all snow and ice from pavements and sidewalks abutting their
property within 24 hours after the snow ceases to fall. When ice is
formed on the pavement or sidewalk so that it cannot be removed, it
shall be kept sprinkled with ashes, sand or other deicing material
that is not harmful to concrete (i.e., salt).
A.Â
Every owner/occupant of any premises within the Town
and the owner of premises within the Town that may be vacant shall
be required to keep the sidewalk bounding upon such premises and the
gutter belonging thereto open and free from obstructions, to include
trash, grass clippings, leaves, debris, refuse or motor vehicles of
any type.
B.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, build
or erect any house, fence or structure of any kind within the lines
of or upon any street, alley or sidewalk of the Town or in any way
to interfere with the bed of such streets and alleys or to change
the grade thereof or to change or fill up the gutters along the street
or in any manner to obstruct the streets, alleys or gutters, provided
that proper driveways may be made over the gutters of the Town, at
the expense of the owner of the property, under supervision of the
Director of Public Works.
C.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation
to obstruct the gutters, streets, alleys, pavements or sidewalks of
said Town with boxes, barrel, lumber, wood, filth or in any other
manner without the consent in writing of the Town Commissioners.
When any of the streets, lanes, alleys or sidewalks
of the Town, or parts thereof, are closed to public travel by order
of the Commissioners, it shall be unlawful for anyone to remove or
displace any rope, board, barricade, light, lantern or any other thing
placed in any street, lane, alley or sidewalk of the Town to designate
that such street, lane, alley or sidewalk has been closed to public
travel, or that such parts of the street, lane, alley or sidewalk
are in an unsafe and dangerous condition, unless permission shall
first be obtained from the Commissioners, who may temporarily allow
such obstruction to be removed on conditions prescribed by them.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
or cause to be placed in or upon any avenue, street or alley of the
Town any tack, nail, piece of iron, or tin, glass or other substance
which may injure, cut or puncture any pneumatic tire.
